title: Mimicry and helping behavior: an evaluation of mimicry on explicit helping request.
abstract: Research found that mimicry behavior led to increased helping behavior toward the mimicker and is associated with higher positive evaluation of the mimicker. Furthermore, studies on helping behavior focused only on implicit helping behavior, whereas no experimental study on explicit helping request was tested. An experiment was carried out in which a female student-confederate mimicked or not mimicked a participant during a discussion about paintings and, after that, solicited the participant for a written feedback about an essay. It was found that mimicry increased compliance to the confederate's request.
authors.affiliation: Université Bretagne-Sud, UFR LSHS, Lorient, France. nicolas.gueguen@univ-ubs.fr
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Guéguen
authors.forename: Angélique
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Meineri
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009042:Motivation; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D055815:Young Adult